JAY — Verso Androscoggin LLC granted selectpersons a third extension Monday on the company’s request for a tax abatement of $469 million in valuation for the April 1, 2013, tax year assessment, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said Monday. The board’s second extension was until Dec. 18, but it has now been extended to Dec. 31, […]
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Verso grants Jay board second extension on tax abatement request
JAY — Verso Androscoggin LLC has granted selectpersons a second extension on the company’s request for a tax abatement of $469 million in valuation for the April 1, 2013, assessment. The board has until Dec. 18 to make a decision, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said Tuesday. LaFreniere, Paul Binette, the town’s assessing agent and the […]
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Resident denied tax abatement asks for rehearing
WATERFORD — A property owner whose appeal for tax relief was denied Thursday by the Oxford County Board of Assessment Review has asked for an immediate rehearing. In a letter dated July 25 to Oxford County Administrator Scott Cole, John Howe, his wife, Deborah, and daughter, Virginia, whose property is in question, have requested a […]
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Oxford County administrator to make decision on tax abatement appeal rehearing
PARIS — Oxford County Administrator Scott Cole said Monday that he is reviewing a Waterford family’s request for an immediate rehearing on an appeal for a tax abatement that was denied by the Oxford County Board of Assessment Review on Thursday afternoon. In a letter dated July 25 to Oxford County Administrator Scott Cole, John Howe, […]
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Rumford paper mill seeks $1.5 million abatement from last year’s taxes
RUMFORD — The Rumford Board of Assessors will meet with NewPage Corp. officials Thursday to consider the paper mill’s tax abatement request of $1.5 million. That’s on top of the reduction by a little more than $1.1 million in taxes last year, Linnell Geronda, assessors’ agent, said Wednesday morning. Geronda said the mill doesn’t usually […]
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Verso grants Jay board extension on acting on tax abatement request
JAY — Verso Androscoggin LLC has agreed to grant selectpersons an extension until Dec. 1 to act on its request for a tax abatement on Jay’s assessment of its real estate and personal property in the town. The town received the formal notice on March 31 that Verso had approved the abatement extension. Under state […]
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Selectmen abate nearly $20,000 in taxes in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Tuesday to abate $19,733.49 in taxes for property that was sold by bid or kept by the town. The properties that were sold earlier this month went for a total of $8,225. Selectmen also signed the State of Maine assessor’s annual return for the town’s share of $161,044.84 of the […]
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Jay voters to be asked to transfer $300,000 for paper mill revaluation
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday to hold a special town meeting March 24 to see if voters will transfer $300,000 from the undesignated fund to an account to do a revaluation of Verso Paper Corp.’s paper mill. The last revaluation of the mill was done 17 years ago by ValPoint of Oregon, now known as […]
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Livermore Falls grants tax abatement to business
LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Tuesday to abate $3,565.12 in personal property taxes to Pine Tree Orthopedic Lab LLC on Park Street. Town Manager Kristal Flagg told selectmen the town’s assessing agent has been working with the company. She also got involved and they toured the facility and looked at its equipment, she said. She […]
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Verso files application with Jay for abatement of 2013 property taxes
JAY — Verso Androscoggin LLC filed an application for a 2013 abatement of property taxes on Tuesday. The request asks the town to abate $469 million in valuation from the company’s real estate and personal property at the Androscoggin Mill. The company said the paper mill and its property are overvalued by the town. “We […]